Macabre Manor

How long it took to film:Three months.

Well, now that Macabre Manor is done I would like
to express some thoughts and "stuffing" here. This has been a really
hard film to attack, thus two different "Macabre Manor"s. I believe
that if you watch both in succession you will see what I was intending.

The newer version comes from a slightly better
camera, a Sony MiniDV capable of capturing 640x480 at very high
resolutions. In this film, the camera was set to capture at low
settings because of the limited 4MB card space. After doing a couple
scenes in the dark, I was also quite happy with the results. The final
film looks grainy, and almost black and white at times. This should
scare some modern horror fans who like special effects and gore. There
really is a sense of atmosphere with subdued colors.

This film was also submitted as a final project
for my Advanced Digital Media class. The teacher of the class has a
large background in art, and pushed my thinking into weird places. My
three works of the semester (only one movie; others were pictures)
dealt with minifigs in a world our size. But what the teacher did was
push my mind into abstract thinking, and this movie came of it. A lot
more came out of the whole class, but Plato's allegory of the Cave
still makes my mind whirl.

So, having someone fuel a project which is not
their own might be a step back (or away) from what you're normally
doing. I felt this way during the whole piece. I made it look artsy
with a gothic feel, but without the gothic charm. Had I been on my own,
surely you would have seen more goblins, and mucus filled monsters. The
movie turned out to be (very simply) a guy getting chased down in a
manor he was paid to go in, and he dies. End of story.

While the lacking story goes on, the abstract
thinker might piece things together differently (to create a movie
wholly for themselves and different from others perspectives.) The
heart in the film is a device used to move the main character across
the screen. The heart is pulling him away. The other device that leads
him to the house is money. Questions abound "Why did that guy turn into
a tree?" "Why did that guy come out of the ground?" Another fall into
abstractedness, where the viewer will make their own meaning.